The President submitted two long telegrams, one from himself to General Sheridan inquiring as to the difficulties at New Orleans and Sherida...

We are having, I think, as warm weather as I have ever experienced. The papers have a curt letter from Speed resigning his office. He has al...

McCulloch asked me yesterday, in the President's room in the Capitol, if I had examined the Freedmen's Bureau Bill, and when I told ...

Have examined the bill for the Freedmen's Bureau, which is a terrific engine and reads more like a decree emanating from despotic power ...

The Freedmen's Bureau wants three boats which are on the Tombigbee. They were blockade-runners which were ordered to be turned over to t...